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25.01.2022 Detail from a Dunbar Captain’s marine chart

10.01.2022 The e-book of ‘Lion Rampant. Duncan Dunbar and the Age of Sail’ should be available from 1 October.

31.12.2021 Steam wagons owned by Francis Vernon Smythe loading silver in Fenchurch(?) street for export from Dunbar Wharf.

22.12.2021 On this day 199 years ago, the firm of Duncan Dunbar & Sons was created. Dunbar Wharf in Fore Street (now Narrow Street) was headquarters for the business which by 1856 was the largest fleet of sailing ships the world ever saw. It covered the transition of fuel from wood to coal and motive power from wind to steam.

16.12.2021 This wonderfully evocative picture of mother and child watching shipping in the Thames, circa 1880.

10.12.2021 The book is in the hands of the typesetter now. The final proofs should be to me by this weekend and to the printers next week. The Covid lockdown has had a delaying effect but we have worked around it and minimised the delay to a few weeks at most. The book should be out by the end of August at the latest. In the meantime looking through some of Dunbars marine charts these snippets may interest you

28.11.2021 Some of the buildings comprising Dunbar Wharf as they look today.

20.11.2021 Some detail from a marine chart of the 1860s.

16.11.2021 At last a book about a person as famous in his time as Samuel Cunard and who had a profound influence on Australia’s development.

03.11.2021 After ten years in the making...

27.10.2021 Lion Rampant: Duncan Dunbar and Age of Sail - here's what it's about...

08.10.2021 The book is finished and we're at the printers. On sale later this month. Pre-orders are available now: https://www.michaelrhodesbooks.com/